Practice and the Human Sciences

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Practice and the Human Sciences is written by Donald E. Polkinghorne and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791484548 (ISBN 10) and 9780791484548 (ISBN 13).

Teachers, nurses, psychotherapists, and other practitioners of care are under pressure to substitute specific, prescribed techniques in place of using their own judgment. Donald E. Polkinghorne assembles the case for the return to judgment-based practice for the professions that engage in direct person-to-person interaction with those they serve. Set in the larger context of the technification of society, Polkinghorne draws from Weber, Heidegger, Ihde, Bourdieu, de Certeau, and other philosophers to trace the advancing power of the technological worldview in Western culture and uses Aristotle, Dewey, and Gadamer to help make his case that we should be doing things very differently.